Imaginary occult works

The deception

The other evening, while insomnia was taking over my house, I decided to tune in to the TV channels dedicated to cultural nothingness, just to clear my brain. Now I come across an unreality TV show on NT1: Live my life as a medium. In this case, for a person who does not believe at all in mediums and other messengers from the beyond, it is a question of following a medium in her “work”. And there, it’s heavy. Amber, the medium or rather the hyper medium, sends the Avengers and the Fantastic 4 back to their niche. The production was not mistaken in going to Biscarosse to find this blonde doll which could just as easily have appeared in Secret Story, the angels of reality TV or any other nonsense of the kind. Moreover, the lady is not far from it, since she has already participated in the same type of touting show on NRJ12.

So our super heroine (who must have fallen into it when she was little), leads a supposedly unbelieving person on a ghost hunt. And from the first contact, our amazon proves her gift of clairvoyance: she feels that her interlocutor is doubtful about her gifts. Too strong! Except that the show consists precisely of provoking a meeting between a medium and a person who does not believe in it. Any person equipped with a few neurons could have deduced that his interlocutor did not think like him. Come on, let’s pretend that the blonde Catherine (aka Ambre) hadn’t been informed that she was filming this kind of show. Beware of ghosts! We arrive at breeders who have seen around twenty cows die without the slightest explanation. The local vet would have found nothing and obviously the local health authorities would not have taken any measures to isolate the farm. Weird, weird… Not for our national Amber who, if she is not necessarily a medium, seems to have solid cinematographic knowledge. While taking out an entity detector worthy of Ghostbusters, she tells us that she has been seeing dead people since she was 5 years old. Well, well, in the film Sixth Sense, a film released in theaters a few years before Ambre made his debut, Cole, the little boy, sees dead people. Let’s move on to the detector which is panicking in a metal shed and the spirit of the hanged man who forgot his rope on a post and who takes revenge on the poor cows for his neck pain and let’s leave this bad Z series film.

So I’m a little more interested in Ambre, who has a website where she highlights her TV appearances “between emotion, efficiency and fear….” to invite the gogos to join her “in her kingdom which is hers” personally. In order to clearly support the famous “seen on TV” well known among pseudo-psychics, we are entitled to large logos of the different channels supposed to demonstrate his seriousness and his multiple talents. Because the Cathambre casts its net wide, very wide, so as not to miss the slightest bit of gogo. While the practice of so-called occult work is considered a fraud by the law, the damsel from Landes has fun doing it. Mirage a little: clairvoyance, coaching, disenchantment, contact with a deceased person, purification of a place or person, magnetism, energetic rebalancing, protective work, prosperity, liberation of knots, interpretation ofdreams, soul conveyor, knowing your gifts, knowing your past lives, return of affection, phew! Even Jesus didn’t do the same. Oh and I almost forgot animal communication. So if a mosquito targets you every night, before bursting its face between ceiling and charentaise, try dialogue, you will emerge psychologically enriched. But not financially. Because the prices for these “works” fly as high as the lady’s delusions. 150 euros for “karmic liberation” or 75 euros to prevent your man’s penis from snooping anywhere other than the house… When we see that, we say to ourselves that it’s better to have a gift, even a bogus one, than to spend 10 years of medical studies. It pays more. And without obligation of result. Ambre specifies this in her “charter”. “No refund will be possible if the consultant is dissatisfied with a service.” Gogo friends, you have been warned: Ambre can be paid in advance and does not reimburse anything. On the other hand, it refrains from “abusing the naivety or credulity of people in situations of weakness and fragility”. Well let’s see!

To those who naively believed that the practice of occult work had disappeared with the marabouts’ advertisements in free classified newspapers, the case of Ambre/Catherine proves the opposite. Not only does the practice of bogus occult work continue, but it is shamelessly displayed on TV channels. Of course, these are channels specializing in programs that are as voyeuristic as they are trashy, but the crooks who claim to practice this occult work find an echo there from which they shamelessly take advantage. Not content with exposing the lives of poor people to make money at the expense of these people, certain channels now allow scammers to rely on mass notoriety to rob people weakened by life. The worst thing is that for some time now, more and more practitioners of the divinatory arts, including some of the most serious ones, have said to themselves that they too could benefit from the market. Litho-therapy, magnetism, return of affection, guaranteed love, success in studies or business, more and more psychics are discovering new talents that they claim to be old ones. Enough to make ends meet, empty the wallets of people in situations of social poverty, and further discredit a profession plagued by charlots and charlatans.

Buffy Brinogene